Legal Opinion
Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 12, 1986No. 736, Docket 83-2389PublishedCited by 188 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Vito Matarese, a New York State prisoner convicted of third-degree robbery, appeals from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Edward R. Neaher, Judge, dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus which contended, inter alia, that the trial judge’s main and supplemental jury charge that “a person is presumed to intend the natural consequences of his act, unless the act was done under circumstances or conditions which preclude the existence of such intent,” unconstitutionally shifted to Matarese the…
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